Appended tracking data on browser links

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I'm getting really tired of Yahoo and others embedding a tracking unique ID and stats on their browser bar entries. These are a violation of our privacy and come with the presumption that they can collect whatever they please and do whatever they want with our data. The trackers typically look like this example and appear in the end of the browser links: http://news.yahoo.com/israeli-attack-...

Yahoo(Google) does this sometimes when going from one article to another, when a link story is sent to another person in email, when items come and go from Twitter, etc. Now, even The Blaze has done it sometimes, adding similar additional encrypted data to the end of the html. These trackers are always at the end after a typical ";" and are typically &ylt, &ylc, etc. I suspect this also happens when they cannot use a cookie or their web tracking is disabled. To permit tracking of who sent whom an article begs the question WHY and whose business is it?

I propose that an add-in remove everything after the end of the html (or whatever the ending is because it could be many suffixes but mostly after ";" and yes I can imagine that is a significant task given searches and parameters for it. Yes, it would need a white list and perhaps some meta ability for exclusions. The deletion should occur on both incoming links and on outbound links so that if a user gets one it is truncated and if they copy a link to the browser bar, the extraneous data is truncated.

I've also noticed some ad companies are fighting back - no cookie, no web tracking, no ability for them to show their ad, then the desired video won't come up in flash. It's their counterassault.

Thanks for the opportunity to share!